Black Moonlight Holds the BE Script Chapter 79 Discussion

Dropped.

Have you ever read quick transmigrations with somewhat tragic BEs for the a$$hole/villainous ML? Eg. "Show Off Once in Every World", "Transmigrated Canon Fodder, Please Calm Down!", "Ex-GF Blackens Every Day".

This story is like one of those mini story arcs, cept the ML is woobified & gets a happy ending. Oh, & apparently, readers sympathize more for the abusive megalomaniac narcissist than the FL.

That's not to say the FL doesn't have her own flaws. But it's paradoxical to see many reviewers/readers chastising her for being both too sympathetic (not unaliving or completely restraining him) while also saying she should have been nicer to him.

On that note of sympathy & "hypocrisy"...

Spoiler

- she does not kill him initially when he's weak because if she doesn't disable part of his power first, he'll just revive into a stronger version of himself. This is said Multiple Times.

- her goal is to kill him as he is the future Demon Lord — this title meaning less of the cutesy storybook archetype or the woobified fanfic Bad Boy, but a genocidal, cruel, sadistic mu*derer. The author covered how cold/inhumane he was pretty extensively with how he enjoys torturing & killing those who offend him & how he fails to understand human compassion/morality from a young age

- she sees his tragic past & sad childhood, & actively tries not to sympathize with him, as this will mess up her ability to carry out her mission & kill him for everyone's good

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So it's not that she doesn't understand her mission or that she doesn't see his pain. There're some conflicts here that are pretty well covered (repeatedly) by the author, in-text.

I'm also baffled by how much readers sympathize with him, while failing to sympathize with her. She (both ex-Xiwu & Susu) undoubtedly ab*sed her power & privileges over him from the beginning of their marriage, making his bitterness understandable. Readers see that. But somehow they fail to also understand her hatred & desire to not submit to him/not be with him romantically... ?

Like??? This man kills (present tense) people indiscriminately. He also takes every chance available to humiliate & entrap her — obviously she's not going to be fond of him?

Even completely ignoring their history before Susu became Ye Xiwu (eg, his abusive childhood & her war torn future), they both do terrible things. Actually, she's trying to keep him alive (so she can kill him after disabling his Revive Button), so it just reads like he's constantly abusing her after she rescues or heals him. Eg. The attempted wasp mu*der, the dream mu*der attempt, the drowning in mud/swamp attempt, the jumping off the boat attempt, the thing with putting her in a cage. Etc.

At some pt, I was only reading so I could get to the part from the summary where he'd regret treating her so poorly. Unfortunately, that pay off was... not enough. :/